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Paul Fellows absolutely claims that. From https://astrospeakers.org/provider/paul-fellows : > He worked on the first generation of home computers and lead the design of the RiscOS …

Well, a reminder of the origin story of RiscOS: https://binarydinosaurs.co.uk/Museum/Acorn/fellows.php Paul Fellows later went on to be the CTO of AlertMe, which became the basis o…

Dot matrix printers + fanfold paper

> Connections, Cosmos, Civilization, The Ascent of Man and Attenborough's Life on Earth Civilization and The Ascent of Man were both commissioned by Attenborough - he had a major i…

It's the same Greek root as Kubernetes

The article is a great read. Though it talks about OBEX, and how Bluetooth wiped out IrDA, but not that Bluetooth took OBEX straight out of the IrDA stack. Not IRDA, but there was …

Partially redacted details here. The award was over 5 years for half that amount, but could be extended to 10. https://www.contractsfinder.service.gov.uk/Notice/0f8a65b5-2...

> click on the “books” tab - the author is a technologist That's rather underselling him. Charles Petzold wrote the canonical reference works for programming Win32 and MFC. It's li…

And a Televideo 910. Keyboard with added reverb :)

Typically, fun memory they'd move to a secure connection for credit card input, but most of the site would be open HTTP - why secure what isn't confidential? Concerns about 3rd par…

I bought myself a 3 year subscription with my very first pay cheque. I got 2 or 3 issues before it went under. As a way of teaching a teenager about the full range of computer tech…

The MRAO is a fascinating place, with things left as they were the last time an instrument was used. The floor of the hut where the array cables were aggregated for connection to t…

It's possibly because of a ruling from the Advertising Standards Authority back in the ADSL days: https://www.asa.org.uk/resource/broadband-speed-claims-guida...

I wondered, but my 15 year old loved it.

And the lesser known "Look Around You" which might also not land so well with an American audience. Thants.

You might be thinking of Rabbit: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rabbit_%28telecommunications%2...

Are the dual redundant leaky feeders configured to act as a MIMO array?

Reminds me of Field, an art installation of planted fluorescent tubes under an HV electricity distribution line back in 2004: https://www.gorge.org/images/field/

The print copy of Felder and Felder looks to be cheaper than Young and Freedman at both Barnes and Noble and Amazon?

Ah yes, and they are very readable indeed.

Felder & Felder's Modern Physics is pretty good ( https://www.cambridge.org/gb/universitypress/subjects/physic... ). I also second OgsyedIE's suggestion og Young & Freedman.